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Are clubs and leisure centres willing and able to offer medical wellness? Or should the focus be on promoting health?


jean-ann marnoch reps • registrar


and now that we have a formal register of exercise professionals, the medical profession can trust us. But instructors need to upskill to at least Level 3 Exercise Referral and employers need to find ways to incentivise them to do so. There’s a relatively new range of Level


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4 qualifications, currently all dealing with specialist medical conditions: cardiac disease, falls prevention, stroke, mental health, lower back pain, obesity and diabetes. Cancer and COPD are in the pipeline. They’re very niche – only about 750 REPs members have these and are called Level 4 Specialist Exercise Instructors. Level 3 Exercise Referral is a more generalist qualification and, from September, will be a prerequisite to doing a Level 4 course. If we truly want to be a resource for the medical profession, we need a broad spread of expertise within our sector. I think the industry needs to make more links with the


medical profession. We need to be pro-active, getting engaged with existing schemes or helping set up new ones. The standards currently being created by the Joint Consultative Forum, on which REPs is represented, will help here.


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e can help with the treatment and management of disease,


eric dunmore the third space • ceo


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don’t think it is the role of the industry to deliver ‘medical’


wellness: that implies treating a range of issues which are outside the scope of the industry, such as cancer and mental illness. But we can promote healthy lifestyles and wellbeing, and play an integral role in promoting prevention rather than cure with health issues.


The Third Space was established with health at its core. We


were the first to have a medical centre as an integral part of our offering. Our team of 35 practitioners encompasses everything from GPs to acupuncturists, physiotherapists and osteopaths, as well as nutrition, counselling, and pre- and post-natal services. This enables us to offer a wide range of pro-active and reactive medical services to our members. All new members have a free session in the medical centre as part of their induction. We are a true ‘health’ club, looking after all our members’


requirements under one roof, and the flow of information from the medical centre to the fitness team – with the patient’s consent – enables us to offer a fantastic rehabilitation service. However, it is an expensive process, requiring careful administration and excellent and open-minded practitioners.


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